Where school kits are needed most
Where children are most stretched for schools, for kit distribution.
What it does
Before the school year: how many children live in each part of your city and how many primary schools are within 2 km, the most stretched areas first, as the distribution plan for school kits, emailed and mapped.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Kampala, count who lives around, sort them by age_0_9 and keep the top 60, count the primary schools and schools within 2 km of each, work out new fields, sort them by per_school and keep the top 12, then show them on a map and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
School kits go furthest where many children share few schools. This flow shows those areas before the school year.
Who it is for
Non-profits, charities & humanitarian. NGOs, charities, aid agencies and community groups who need to reach people in need, find partners and report their impact. Every use case for non-profits & humanitarian
Best use cases
- An education NGO
- A school supplies drive
- A UN agency’s field office
What each run gives you
- A map
- An email with the plan
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 180 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 3 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 9 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- People in every block of the cityxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
- Best 60 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Primary schools nearbyxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Children per schoolLogic · Calculated fieldAdds fields worked out from the others: a number, a text or a yes/no.
- Best 12 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Count what is around each of your places: Competitors, footfall magnets or services within a distance of each site.
- Compare sites side by side: Two or three spots measured the same way, one column each, the best of every row marked and the best site and why.
- An instant site report of any spot: Paused for now while xMap improves the data behind it. Reports already made still open.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Catchment area: The area a store or service draws its customers from.
- Drive time vs radius: Two ways to draw the area around a site, and when each is good enough.
More for Non-profits, charities & humanitarian
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- Neighbourhoods far from a food bank: The blocks furthest from food help, for the next distribution point.
- Cooling centres near the most seniors: Cool places near the most seniors, with a public message, on heatwave days.
- Bakeries and supermarkets to ask for surplus food: Food shops near you, asked for their surplus with an approved message.
- Where to hold the next blood drives: Busy places far from a blood bank, scored as blood drive sites.
- Older people far from a community centre: Where many older people live far from a community centre.